I actually wrote this two or three weeks ago, but did so at work and then had trouble acessing it from home because they were updating the security system adn I wasn't in the day they reset all the passwords. *sigh* And then I've just been forgetting or putting it off ever since. It feels horrible to put things up on here with the wrong date. Ah well.
Many days overdue, here is my latest 'masterpiece'. With a note: please note that, while the tone is perhaps a bit harsh, it is not meant to be unkind. It is voicing a concern and veiwing a situation rather than making accusations or voicing critisism. I believe that the common man must stand up for what they believe in. If they have a concern they need to voice it, if they have an idea they need to act. All around us the world is going crazy, I know people are noticing because they say it as they tear their hair out with grief and worry. Wringing your hands won't do any good. People say 'I can't make a difference, I'm just one person and an unimportant one at that. If I was one of those big wigs up in Washington or some famous person then...' The common man must rise out of the dust. No person is better than any other, though perhaps some people have learned to be themselves better than others. Be genuine and be bold. It is time to make a statement. "Qui tacet consentire
videtur"; Silence denotes consent. If you do not give voice when you see what is happening then you carry responsibility for the outcome. It doesn't matter who you are. If you are a writer then write it, if you are a painter then paint it, if you are a singer then sing it, if you are a song writer then find that singer, if you are a mother then teach your children, if you are a teacher then teach your students, if you are a citizen then learn about your rights and act on them, no matter who you are encourage others to do the same. It does not matter who you are, if you are someone then you can make a difference.
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The sticker on the window I read in reverse
But now “God Bless America” is only a verse
In a song we called anthem that has lost its meaning
In a nation where humanity now lies bleeding
Sore wounds from hearts and hands
Tilled into souls and fallows Promised Land.
God, bless American
A nation where your name
Cannot be said aloud unless it’s made profane
For thus is equality proved
As the atheists take oligarchic rule.
God, bless America
So broken homes no longer stand
Spreading like disease across our infected land.
Give us instead our public schools
With cookie-cutter rules
Requiring five fingers on every hand
And forgive us this day our daily trespass
As we are required lest the teacher break a ruler on us.
God bless America
And give us the right to choose
To unchoose what we choose
This is the way we would like it to be
For thus is our agency free and justice confused
God bless America
That Liberty Tree will grow
Without pruning
Without manure
Without rain
Without snow
With sun, but not too bright
For any such would bother us
In our hammock of indolence.
God, bless America
Prosper the meek
That they can pay when they are innocent
That they may all go free
And be taxed on the rest at the end of the week
So I have fewer bills I will have to pay myself.
God, bless America.
Bless her founding fathers
Lost to this nation and found in no other
Help us to someday find them in the lost and found
A picture lying crumpled on the muddy ground
So that we may memorize their names
The dates they were born and from where they came
Because we realize the importance of this.
God, bless America.
Or, if there is no God
Then Industry
Or Fate.
Perhaps Lady Luck will take the case?
Or Bacchius
Or Mars
Or Rip Van Winkle
Will show us the trick to make problems twinkle
Out of existence without any work
So we may continue to eat drink and to shirk
The problems we create for tomorrow and today
As we thoughtlessly show our children the way
Down to the Valley of the Shadow of Death
Where we have decided to plant ourselves.
Flag of America
Run up the pole
Symbol of what makes a nation whole
Forgotten white on divine but faded blue
Red stripes of sacrifice running through
Dingy with age
Covered in dust
Forgotten as the God we once swore we would trust.
Let us say the pledge,
Now shall we?
Place broken hands on bleeding hearts
In a hesitant mumble the chanting starts
“We pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the States of Northern America
One nation
Without a cause With liberty and justice for all who can afford a good lawyer. | 
